Saw a video of a 2 year old being run over in China and 20 people walked by and didn't reven help her. Keep rin mind, she was run over not once, but TWICE! And people actually rwalked around the puddle of blood she rwas laying in. Mind-blowing. Saw the video on the rmain page of aol.com. Made me extremely sad...

How are things like this still shocking to people with all the death and tradegy the show everyday on the news? and then they mix bullshit in. Notice the next news story on there is about Dancing With The Stars. Fuck this country and its media.

^ Pretty much.
I don't get why people see this as so horrible. People die, every day. And that's nothing new to humanity. (there probably only have been in a couple of days without war in the history of humanity) I see how it's uncivilized but it's nothing special. (in dick-speech: quit whining about the world being so horrible and whatnot)

and I don't see why anyone wouldn't consider this decrepit. yeah, people die every day, and the world is a pretty messed up place: no one can deny this. however, the point here is not that someone died. the point is that humanity has deteriorated to the point where people will pass by a dying toddler without doing anything to help her, or even glancing her way. it's pretty abhorrent.

and I don't see why anyone wouldn't consider this decrepit. yeah, people die every day, and the world is a pretty messed up place: no one can deny this. however, the point here is not that someone died. the point is that humanity has deteriorated to the point where people will pass by a dying toddler without doing anything to help her, or even glancing her way. it's pretty abhorrent.

"I don't get why people see this as so horrible. People die, every day."

I guess its to do with the fact that a defenseless 2 year old got run over twice and no one did anything for 10 minutes. I know you can throw in kids dying all over the world from starving and such, but this is a different case imo.

I genuinely think this is because of how overpopulated the country of China is. I mean, the more people you're around every day, the more you don't have time for others. It sounds like a bullshit excuse (which it is), but I can guarantee the people ignoring the child were thinking along the lines of, "If I had time to stop and help everyone I passed that needed it, I'd have no time to get to work/school/home to my kids/time for myself/etc."

"The point is that humanity has deteriorated to the point where people will pass by a dying toddler without doing anything to help her, or even glancing her way. it's pretty abhorrent. "
So what? What makes this different than passing by old homeless people, that are about to starve? What makes this different than bombing innocents or denying a already dying person the right to be properly executed? What makes this different than people hitting, abusing, raping and killing their kids?
All of which is pretty "usual". There is no real argument as to why this differs or is so horrible except for moral implications and the fact that it happened in public.

Also, what forever said. You can't just rip things out of context, so considering China's overpopulation it makes sense that there's a probabilty for things like that to happen.

This is a quote from the article I read about it: "In recent years, assisting victims in traffic accidents or other emergency situations has become controversial in China. In an attempt to cover costly medical expenses, several senior citizens, injured in accidents that were their own fault, turned against people who helped them at the scene by suing the good Samaritans for compensation, according to state media."

"I heard it may also be due to the fact that there have been recent scammers (supposedly injured/frail) attempting to lure in passers by to then claim compensation or something stupid like that."

Yeah they mentioned that in the video, but that doesn't really make sense in this context, does it? I mean, surely the people who aren't helping aren't thinking a 2 year old is going to sue them. Unless the child's parents could? I don't know, I'm not really sure how that works, I'm ignorant when it comes how the law works in these cases.

"How are things like this still shocking to people with all the death and tradegy the show everyday on the news? and then they mix bullshit in. Notice the next news story on there is about Dancing With The Stars. Fuck this country and its media."

You need a blow job, then you need to pay less attention to the media js. ;^)

It's not like it was simply criticizing how hypocriticial it is losing their shit over this, playing moralizers but probably in reality not being better themselves. Nooooo. I'd never do that. I was obviously saying this case is good, who gives a shit if a kid dies in public?

Lol yeah let's talk about this all high and mighty as if it would never happen in North America, we're too civilized. Mean-while people have been trampled to death over sales at Walmart. One lady who was trampled was pregnant, but this is so much worse. :p Sure it's terrible and tragic but stuff like this happens ever day it's just not as publicized.

"Lol yeah let's talk about this all high and mighty as if it would never happen in North America"

Me and 2 other people stopped to help a lady who had broken down on the side of the road today after she was there less than 5 minutes, this little girl was bleeding to death in the middle of the road for 10 and your going to say she would have gotten the same treatment in the States, I don't think so.

Umm.., Sure this one time something terrible happened to that little girl. But in the States a crowd tore a door off its hinges and trampled a man to death injuring a pregnant women, no one was helping them, they were stepping on them. How is that not as bad?

Not saying you wouldn't have helped just saying that as a whole North America can be just as cruel.

Because that was a mob of morons in a rush, not every day people casually passing by. And I agree it can be just as cruel, I didn't take personal offense, but I don't think this particular situation would have happened over here, at all.

Maybe not the exact same situation, but worse definitely has happened. I mean not only did they sit by and watch this pregnant woman get stepped on they helped out :p I don't think that because they were in a group that makes it any more excusable... Just my opinion though.

":How are things like this still shocking to people with all the death and tradegy the show everyday on the news? and then they mix bullshit in. Notice the next news story on there is about Dancing With The Stars. Fuck this country and its media."

I don't think it does either, not at all. That is definitely just as bad if not worse, but I think the sympathy for a dying child would be taken into consideration a lot more over here, by those not in a greedy American shopping bloodlust anyway.

Summed up it's sad enough without imagining the coma-induced child probably hemorrhaging or convulsing while saturated by it's own blood before lying there completely limp from the conditions of it's wounds. I am sure the passer-byers acknowledged the body from a peripheral view and didn't delve into the possibility that the child may be in critical condition. Perhaps they didn't even recognize the child through it's disfigurement and rationalized it as roadkill instead of a human toddler.

Who knows, speculation isn't an objective means of analyzing the phenomenon.

Okay, so I dunno if this has been mentioned on this thread already, but I don't feel like reading through it.

I want to give you my view of this.

I've been to China, my sister is adopted from China, and my other sister is from Taiwan. I know a lot more about their laws than the average American, I like to believe... I don't know much, but I know enough.

Basically, in China, if someone is responsible for the injury of another civilian, they are required (forced) to pay said person's medical bills for the rest of their life, even if the bills are not at all relevant to the original injury caused to the victim. Previous to this event, a man helped a woman who fell off of her balcony. The man was charged with responsibility of the event, and now he's paying her medical bills for the remainder of his existence. I believe it's very possible that the truck drivers feared taking on such a responsibility... Now, I don't know why the second truck driver did not miss the girl. Chinese drivers are insane (seriously, the traffic laws are oddly lax there, it's really scary driving around in China.) and there are so many pedestrians and bikers crammed into a small area, that I believe it's very possible the truck drivers didn't see her in time... Also, she may not have been helped due to the fact she is a girl, and they hold a very low amount of esteem in China... It's all very sad, and it's certainly still a terribly unfortunate and awful event. But, I don't think it was cruelty. The people in China are extremely, EXTREMELY, nice. They are far more caring than people here in America, or really anywhere else I've been. I doubt they'd just maim a kid and let them die.

Oh and China has no "Good Samaritan" law, so of they helped and something went wrong they could have a serious lawsuit on their hands, so it kind of makes sense. Still not right but it's some sort of explanation.

"It still shouldn't have stopped anybody from acting but it is BS. "
And there you got your catch. It SHOULDN'T. Exact same thing when fights or attacks happen in public, but do most people do something? No, they don't. Sometimes understandably. There was a case here (where it's safe to say it's USUALLY pretty "safe" on the streets) where a person was attacked in broad daylight and when someone got in to help he got injured in a manner that could've killed him. I doubt that's rare tbh. (maybe not that extent of injury, but the example of this)

Yeah, here's a direct quote from the article: "At the time of the accident, Wang (the father) was busy tending his shop while his wife was hanging laundry, and neither noticed their daughter had wandered outside, state media reported."

"And there you got your catch. It SHOULDN'T. Exact same thing when fights or attacks happen in public, but do most people do something?"

This is where you get your catch. When someone see's a fight or beating there is a chance they will get injured, it comes across as a threat to themselves. There was absolutely no threat to anybody walking by this little girl, except of course the aforementioned suing, which I still don't see as a viable excuse.